Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murder, rape and sudden death scarcely stir the branches of this moss-hung family tree. Only uncultured Huey Long's drooling henchman is really outraged by the discovery that the heir to Belle Heloise is not his father's son, but his father's sister's bastard. Even stern Madame Mere accommodates herself wisely to the marriage of her daughter to the son of The River Road's "Dago peddler" (who becomes a millionaire purveyor of fancy groceries), and her granddaughter's marriage to the pilot of a river tug. For under the conventions...
...Rollins campus is really something. During the 21-year presidency of imaginative Hamilton Holt, Rollins' midway has blossomed with such sprightly sideshows as a course in Evil, a professorship of hunting & fishing, a tree-lined "Walk of Fame" paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world's great, from Louisa M. Alcott to Christopher Columbus. Also, for all its eccentricities, it has been a sprightly school, with a lively interest...
Versatile Actress McGuire (Claudia, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) plays the mute girl to a fare-you-well, finally managing to stammer some words into an antique wall telephone after the shock of seeing the last of a series of murders. However improbable such a recovery may be in a medical sense, it makes excellent cinema sense. So do a dozen other scenes in the picture...
...Manhattan had to go on. Its reporters hustled across the Hudson to the Hicswa home. They found it plunged in grief: there was a welcome sign for Joey on the front door, presents for him in the parlor. He had been expected home any day, and the Christmas tree had been kept ready. It made a poignant story: any newsman who failed to see its news value should have quit. But the papers proceeded to overplay it outrageously...
...Hand. Near Greenwich, Conn., John McGrath and Fairley Muehleck in their dual-control plane grazed a tree, cracked up, later discovered why: each thought the other had the controls...